Re: resizing swap partition
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*.
> > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up.
>
>
> Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with 2.6. I
> could swear I've used a swap file on 2.4. Maybe I'm imagining it, though.
It's "always" been there, but before 2.6, there was a speed penalty
for using swap files, which was supposed to be eliminated in 2.6.
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